If convicted, Angel Luis Medina, Doel Vega, and Luz Eneida Morales could be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
SPRINGFIELD - Three Holyoke residents were charged in U.S. District Court Thursday after a grand jury indicted them in connection with a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pills in Holyoke, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz.
Charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone, a controlled substanct, were Angel Luis Medina, 31, Doel Vega, 24, and Luz Eneida Morales.
The indictment alleges that between January 2009 and April 11, the three took part in an operation that sought to distribute illegal pills in Holyoke.
Medina and Vega were among nine people arrested in Holyoke April 11 as part of a multi-agency operation to shut down a trafficking operation.
Participating in the 10-month investigation were U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Holyoke police, Easthampton police, the office of Hampden District Attorney Mark G. Mastroianni, Hampden County Narcotics Task Force, Hampden County Sheriff's Department, the Massachusetts State Police, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, the United Postal Service, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Officials said at the time the arrests, the drug operation brought oxycodone to Holyoke from Florida.
Conviction on the conspiracy charge can result in a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.